Candidates Reportedly Pre-Positioning Lawyers

With one week to go in the presidential campaign, Inside Counsel Magazine is reporting that President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney are lining up several high-powered lawyers to handle any post-election disputes. Obama has reached out to his former White House Counsel Robert Bauer, a former partner at Perkins Coie. Romney has tapped Benjamin Ginsberg, a partner at Patton Boggs, who served as chief legal counsel for George W. Bush's presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004. According to the article, the two lawyers already have been “quiet players” in the respective campaigns. Among other tasks, they negotiated deals for all four of the election debates. Read more